Why aren’t we helping our children?

EVERY week I, like many thousands of people, are constantly being told of some family that we know off who has lost a child that has died, normally a teenager who should be starting off in life’s wonderful journey.

Why aren’t we helping our children?

Yet these kids take their own lives by suicide — sometimes it can be that the outside world thinks they die of some other illness, but close family and friends know that this deadly killer has struck again.

What is going on in our society when our kids don’t want to talk to their parents or their anxiety is so bottled up they feel the only way out is by taking their precious lives?

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